South Carolina righthander Cody Morris (Aaron Fitt)

Fall Report: South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Back in 2005, Mark Kingston was one of those hot names in the coaching carousel — an up-and-coming assistant coach who was widely regarded as a “can’t-miss” future head coaching star. He had served as an assistant at Miami and then as recruiting coordinator at Tulane, where he helped build a No. 1 national seed that went to Omaha in 2005.

But Kingston didn’t hang around waiting for the big-time power-conference head job. He didn’t jump right from the assistant’s chair to the SEC or ACC pressure cooker, like his peers Kevin O’Sullivan, Brian O’Connor[…]